Before long experts say, millennials will make up 75% of the work force. That age group grew up with video games – having spent thousands and thousands of hours playing them. Why not use video ...
SCHAUMBURG – Bridging the dreaded “skills gap” is the challenge 161 students have undertaken this fall at the Technology & Manufacturing Association’s renowned training program. The students’ skills training is funded by employers that want ...
Few things are more important when an airplane is taking off or touching down than dependable, sturdy and smoothly functioning landing gear. Most fliers just don’t give those gears a thought – unless they malfunction ...
Over the past six years, Rolling Meadows High School’s Technical Education Department has grown exponentially – from 16 students in 2012 to 200 in 2018. Curious about this growth, TMA went to Rolling Meadows Technical ...
ROLLING MEADOWS – When Anthony Genovese started teaching engineering and manufacturing classes at Rolling Meadows High School, a small class of 16 students was enrolled. Six years later, an amazing 200 Rolling Meadows students come ...
Even National Public Radio is waking up to the reality that college is an expense more and more high schoolers are re-evaluating and deciding instead to take a career path towards a trade job that ...
Last year, Cristian Arguello won among his high school peers in Technology & Manufacturing Association’s (TMA) Precision Machining Competition. This year, he is continuing to learn and his new employer is paying for it. It’s ...
Metrology — the science of measuring — is the centerpiece of East Dundee’s Made to Measure, a company Sven Bley founded in 2003 from a department at Bley Engineering in Elk Grove, Illinois. Bley, a ...
Are you a junior or senior in high school? Do you live in the 10th CD? If so, you could be selected to be a part of Congressman Brad Schneider’s brand new STEM Scholar program. ...
(PIctured above Patrick Osbourne with TMA Instructor Cornel Ionita) SPRINGFIELD – On May 26th, state Capitol residents heard TMA’s Vice President of Education & Training Patrick Osbourne talk about the pressing need for education efforts ...